{"product_id":"the-ladies-gallery-a-memoir-of-family-secrets","title":"The Ladies' Gallery: A Memoir of Family Secrets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Lolita Lebrns granddaughter  heir to the most public female embodiment of heroic self-sacrifice in Puerto Rico in this century  has written a memoir full of searing  intimate truths  silences broken open to reveal the personal costs of public myth making. . . . A momentous act of courage. \" -- The Womens Review of Books  A shred of black lace. A broken hand mirror. A spidery strip of false eyelash. These are the fragments left to Irene Vilar  granddaughter of Lolita Lebrn  the revered martyr for Puerto Rican independence who in 1954 sprayed the U.S. House of Representatives with gunfire. In The Ladies Gallery  Vilar revisits the legacy of her grandmother and that of her anguished mother  who leapt from a speeding car when Vilar was eight. Eleven years after her mothers death  Vilar awakens in a psychiatric hospital and begins to face the devastating inheritance of abandonment and suicide passed down to her from grandmother and mother.  Alternating between Vilars notes from the psychiatric ward and the unraveling of her familys secrets  this razor-sharp memoir of three generations of Puerto Rican women is urgent  impassioned  unforgettable.  \"An autobiography as fantastic as any novel. \" --Boston Globe  \"Profoundly moving and beautifully written.\" --Rosario Ferre  author of The House on the Lagoon\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944720789557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679745467","price":68.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780679745464.jpg?v=1769930177","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ladies-gallery-a-memoir-of-family-secrets","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}